Mumbai, March 11: Defending champions Deccan Chargers are determined to continue their fairytale saga when the third edition of the tournament gets underway here on Friday.

New Delhi, March 11: India is expected to ink pacts worth over $10 billion with Russia on Friday, when visiting Prime Minister Vladimir Putin will hold talks with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.

Congress president Sonia Gandhi is congratulated by party members for the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha at her residence in New Delhi on Wednesday.     PHOTO:  Asian Age

Deccan Chargers’ Andrew Symonds tries his hands at boxing during practice at Navi Mumbai on Wednesday. Deccan Chargers, the reigning IPL champions, play their first match against the Kolkata Knight Riders on Friday.     PHOTO: PTI

New Delhi, March 10: JD(U) president Sharad Yadav’s proposed move to bring a no-confidence against the government failed to fructify as both, Rashtriya Janata Dal chief Lalu Prasad Yadav and Samajwadi Party supremo Mulayam Singh Yadav, said on Wednesday that they are “not considering this option”.

New Delhi, March 10: UPA chairperson and Congress president Sonia Gandhi called Trinamul Congress leader Mamata Banerjee for a meeting at her 10, Janpath residence on Wednesday evening to discuss the latter’s objections to the Women’s Reservation Bill in its present form. Two Trinamul members of the Rajya Sabha had abstained from voting on the bill on Tuesday.

Nicosia (Cyprus), March 10: A Nicosia court on Wednesday remanded two men, including an Indian, to custody after the police said one of them had confessed to stealing the body of late Cyprus President Tassos Papadopoulos from a grave three months ago.

Patna,  March 10: Bihar’s muscle-flexing former MP and ruling JD(U) leader Anand Mohan, serving a life sentence for murdering a district magistrate, threw the law of the land to the wind by attending a feast and addressing a press conference on his way from jail to a court in police custody.

Ahmedabad, March 10: All the students in the post-graduate programme in management (PGP) of IIM, Ahmedabad, have found jobs in 110 different firms in India and abroad. IIM-A had introduced a cohort-based placement process this time around.

Islamabad, March 10: Pakistan Cricket Board chairman Ijaz Butt on Wednesday took a U-turn hours after imposing lifetime bans on former Pakistan cricket captains Younis Khan and Mohammad Yousuf and said that the two batsmen can be considered for national duty.